"colly" birds, colly referring to soot or coal black.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

My ain kind dearie, O! Nae herds wi 'kent or colly there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century] Reference

That was a slang name for the blackbird -- calling birds, colly birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2009] Reference

• Remember to give your true love four colly/calling birds on this fourth day of Christmas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Looking ahead: Tuesday] Reference

He's the raven master who looks after nine very large, very important colly birds -- black ravens.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2009] Reference

But after they met us, and digested all the implications, they would develop the colly-wobbles no end.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Lensman]

Dey iz after teh French hens an teh colly birds an teh partridge an teh swans an teh milk frum teh milkmayds!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock presents - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

Nao no kitteh but haz border colly, 2 big 2 lift 2 seeling, sew whee send hur 2 chais da ebil skwerls orf da burds fooders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spider cat, Spider cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

You mean, he may get himself up as a colly-something - a beetle-lover - and go and sit solemnly in the meetings at the Town Hall, while everyone is looking for him elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of the Missing Man]

This place is enough to give one the colly-wabbles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life] Reference

A colly, with the sheep-dog's wooden bar suspended from its shaggy neck, lay at his feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time] Reference

Facts are easily supported. looking forward to seeing your evidence.cheers. mallen colly on August 13, 2010, 9: 54 am.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail & Guardian Online] Reference

The Prices think that the colly birds might have referred to the European blackbird which is really a thrush, related to our robin.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

Read the links. mallen colly on February 12, 2010, 2: 24 pm mallen colly, what part of "PW fled the sinking ship, leaving FW to raise the white flag of surrender" do you have a problem understanding?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Muti] Reference

Not as I could find i 'my heart to let him stay i' the coal-hole more nor a minute, but it was enough to colly him all over, so as he must be new washed and dressed, and it was as good as a rod to him -- that was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Silas Marner] Reference

"But I don't want to be a colly - er - colly - what was it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of the Missing Man]

We played his new game, Woo-hoo-colly-wobbles, " said Bets.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters]

4. The song "The Twelve Days of Christmas" refers to "four colly birds".    From Wordnik.com.  [February 2005] Reference

"My mother's out - so if you want to play that woo-hoo-colly-wobbles game, we can.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters]

A colly dog jumped over a coffin which a funeral party had set on the ground while they rested.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore] Reference

Now, originally that was four colly birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2009] Reference

October 14, 2009 at 10:37 am wud be a colly-flour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Even Bad Boys - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

"Ah, you think so, my lad, just the same as I might think I could ha 'mended your broken colly bone.    From Wordnik.com.  [King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale] Reference

As he sets dar in his rockin-cheer, he looks mighty solem-colly -- looks like he wanted to ax you to haf him now. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [My Southern Home: or, The South and Its People] Reference

PC's give me the colly-wobbles, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vigorish] Reference

I love young colly-flowers if stew'd in cheese.    From Wordnik.com.  [De Libris: Prose and Verse] Reference

(which was very strainge to mee), at this time of the year, wee have radishes, cabbiges, and excellent colly flowers, and large ones for a penny a-piece. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference

Reply colly.    From Wordnik.com.  [IPL Cricket’s Online Video Offering Is An Epic Fail] Reference

"One can't see it for colly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Channings] Reference

"Or sufferers fron colly-wobbles?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of the Missing Man]

I'll teach you Woo-hoo-colly-wobbles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters]

"We're none of us colly-whatever-you-said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of the Missing Man]

"This gives me the colly wobblies, no less.    From Wordnik.com.  [Children of the Lens]

I would rather bring up a colly than a man. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag] Reference

Spitz, dachshund, spaniel, colly, pug, and poodle families.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice] Reference

Palms -- Noa-colly -- Salt-smuggling -- Delta of Ganges and Megna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference